Excluding files

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

I’ve downloaded and installed GT2 http://philip.helger.com/gt/ and Avast said:
[Sign of “Rutedrop [Trj]” has been found in “C:\Programs\GT2\gtdata.dll”]
I’ve mailed the author and he asured me it’s just sample code. So I added it to the “exclude” list in avast.
I tried to instal gt2 again and avast goes “Warning”, (see above).
I turned avast off and installed gt2. Again. Scanning a file (with gt2), avast goes “warning”.

Why doesn’t avast ignore the file/folder I excluded? Is there another way to exclude files?

2

How exactly did you add it to the exclusions list?
In what exclusion list did you put it?

3

In the preferences menu.

4

Sure, there are actually two exclusion lists: one in program settings, affecting the on-demand scanners, and another one in Standard Shield settings, affecting Standard Shield (i.e. on-access protection) only.
Second, it’s necessary to put the complete mask to the exlucions, i.e. something like
C:\Programs\GT2*
or
*\gtdata.dll
I’d rather suggest the later, because of potential problems with long file names in the first case.

Oh, there is the WebShield exclusion list for websites too

5

Thanx! I finally found the standard shield settings, set the mask like you said and it worked like a charm. ;D

Case closed

6

Glad I could help.

But, if you can, please, post and help the others.
Without helping, the forum does not survive 8)

7

Shoor thang! ;D

8

??? Is it in English? ???

9

Sorry! :slight_smile: I meant ‘sure thing’.